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24 alternatives to Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search

Gemini Embedding 2 can project raw video directly into a 768-dimensional vector space alongside text. No transcription, no frame captioning, no intermediate text. A query like "green car cutting me off" is directly comparable to a 30-second video clip at the vector level. I used this to build a CLI that indexes hours of footage into ChromaDB, then searches it with natural language and auto-trims the matching clip. Demo video on the GitHub README. Indexing costs ~$2.50/hr of footage. Still-frame detection skips idle chunks, so security camera / sentry mode footage is much cheaper.

A command-line tool that indexes video footage by converting it directly into a searchable vector space using Gemini's native video embedding. Users can search hours of video with natural language queries like "green… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites.

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    Google's first natively multimodal embedding model

    Mar 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Gemini Omni is a multimodal AI video platform that lets you create and edit videos through natural conversation. Start with a text prompt or add images, video, and audio as references. Describe what you want to create or change, from camera movement and backgrounds to character a

    May 2026 · deepmind.google · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Agentic video analysis for faster, smarter Gemini insights

    Sep 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Choppity▲797

    Find any part of any long video, turn it into a social clip

    2024 · choppity.com · its alternatives →

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    Search for stuff that's not in the transcripts

    May 2026 · goldenretriever.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI Video Cutter for viral Shorts, Reels, TikTok in Telegram

    May 2026 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    FastCut▲363

    Hi HN, We're two final-year college students from India, and we just launched FastCut – an AI tool to help creators, coaches, and marketers quickly edit there short form content (Reels, Shorts, TikToks) to make it more engaging. The goal is simple: Let users upload a raw video and get back a polished, engaging short in minutes — without touching a timeline. FastCut does the following: Automatically trims silences and filler content - Adds clean, animated captions using speech-to-text - Enhances audio - Pulls in relevant images (via Google Search), stock clips, stickers, and GIFs - Adds…

    2023 · fastcutai.co · its alternatives →

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    ChatCutfrom $25/mo▲434

    Your AI video editor in ChatGPT, desktop, and web

    Jul 2026 · chatcut.io · its alternatives →

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    Crop it like it's hot! Vertical and square videos in a snap.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I wanted a way to search across multiple YouTube videos at once, find every time someone discusses a topic, compare how different creators explain the same concept, or pull all mentions of a keyword across a channel's archive. The interesting part: it uses Gemini's multimodal capabilities to search visually, not just transcripts. So you can find "the whiteboard diagram" or "when he shows the demo", things transcript-based tools completely miss. Stack: Next.js, Convex, Clerk, Gemini 3 Flash Would love feedback from anyone who works with video content. https://momentclip.com

    Jan 2026 · momentclip.com · its alternatives →

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    Super quick lossless cutting of video and audio files

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Edit Mind▲115

    Local-first AI video knowledge base. Search every frame with natural language, send clips to your NLE, and never lose track of your footage again. Designed for video editors, content creators, and visual storytellers.

    May 2026 · edit-mind.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! I'm Andrew Arrow, a developer and Final Cut Pro user. My history with FCP goes back years and years, I tried to be a video editor as a career but ended up a software developer. I purchased the full version of the software a long, long time ago. And to Apple's credit, every single time I goto the App Store on any mac I still have access to download it. I must have been through 20, 30? I don't know, but a lot of macs over the years. Just recently I downloaded it again and noticed the XML Export feature. Wow. There's a lot of stuff there. I mean a lot. I started playing around with…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Free Veo 3 - AI Video Generator

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    A.I. powered video analysis, search and clip generation

    2023 · wearenova.ai · its alternatives →

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    Cutsio▲73

    Your entire video library, now searchable and editable by AI

    Apr 2026 · cutsio.com · its alternatives →

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    KaoBoy▲8

    ChatGPT for Videos

    Nov 2025 · s3cura.ai · its alternatives →

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    I made this mostly to make content creation faster. When recording a youtube video/ podcast. there's alot of downtime (silence) while looking at scripts or getting the correct item to display. So I made a webapp to automatically cut and stich the video back together then I can further edit in davinci resolve. But I recently found out that this is crazy good for rewatching lectures or meeting recordings, No need to render, just drop the video in and watch it right away. 30min lecture can be watched in 12min! I even added auto generation of subtitles to make studying lecture /meeting…

    2025 · silenceslicer.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on this Claude Code pipeline for making 10-minute movies, gluing together Seedance (videogen), Nano Banana (image gen), and ElevenLabs (voice gen), and using Claude as the director. My repo contributes a markdown playbook and a worked example which should make it easier for other people to make their own short movies. A first-pass movie takes around 2.5 hours of wall clock time and costs around $200, and iterating is easy thanks to intermediate artifacts like storyboards and voice samples.

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    So I made a thing Got tired of that Gemini watermark in the corner of Nano Banana images, so I built a little Chrome extension to remove it. It's called "Peel Banana" and I just put it up on the Chrome Web Store. Completely free. - The whole thing runs locally in your browser using a reverse-blending algorithm(based on allenk's GeminiWatermarkTool). - No uploads, no servers, no external API. - Just drag in your images and it spits out clean versions in about a second. Keeps the original quality too. - You can do a whole batch at once if you've got a bunch of images to process. Anyway,…

    Jan 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    TL;DR: Turn hours of raw GoPro footage + a .fit file into a 60-second highlight reel with ride telemetry burned in. Every second of the ride is scanned by gemini-3.5-flash, as is the clip ranking + curation. The whole thing costs about $0.04 per ride and takes 10 minutes. Longer version: Road cycling has been my primary form of exercise, social outlet, therapy, wardrobe expense, and personality trait for almost a decade. I ride most weekends, usually out of Manhattan and up 9W. By the end of a ride I have hours of GoPro footage and one .fit file with per-second speed, power, heart rate,…

    Jul 2026 · iandmacomber.com · its alternatives →

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    LTX-2 is an open-source diffusion model that combines video and audio. Visually it's not at the level of Seedance 2.0, Veo 3.1, or Sora 2, but it’s open-weights, so anyone can play with it. I wanted to see how good it is at generating video from just audio. Off-the-shelf, it's not very good, but I found that if you run the audio through Gemini to generate a prompt, then feed that into LTX-2, in addition to the audio, the output matches the audio much more often. Foley sounds work particularly well, and one fun use case is uploading audio of yourself to see what AI thinks you look like.…

    Mar 2026 · magichour.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source AI video editor you control by chatting

    Jun 2026 · vibeclip.dev · its alternatives →

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